After the A16 chip suffered design defects, Apple is fully committed to the development of the A17 chip.

According to the latest exposure from Tianfeng International Securities analyst Guo Mingyi, the slowdown in processor upgrade is not conducive to the sales of end products (such as A16, M2 series chips).To ensure that the world's most advanced 3nm processor can be put into mass production in 2023-2025, Apple is devoting most of its IC design resources to the research and development of new processors.

Guo Mingyi said that in the foreseeable futureApple will devote most of its design resources to Apple Silicon chips made in 3nm technology, which will significantly improve performance and power consumption compared to their predecessors.

This will be the top priority for the Apple team. Due to lack of development resources, Apple has even delayed the development and mass production of its 5G baseband and Wi-Fi chips.

If all goes according to plan, Guo Mingyi expects Apple's ldquo;, the world's most advanced 3nm processor, the rdquo;, to go into mass production as soon as this year.。

After upgrading 3nmThe performance of Apple Silicon chips will be greatly improved, including the A17 series used by iPhone 15 and the new M-series chips used by Mac.

According to previous reports, Apple had planned to make a major upgrade to the GPU of the A16 chip on the iPhone 14 Pro series, but was forced to cancel the new GPU at the later stage of development after discovering that the ldquo; was unprecedented & rdquo; 's mistake.

According to previous reports, Apple had planned to make a major upgrade to the GPU of the A16 chip on the iPhone 14 Pro series, but was forced to cancel the new GPU at the later stage of development after discovering that the ldquo; was unprecedented & rdquo; 's mistake.

Apple only discovered the design flaw in the new GPU at a later stage of development and had no choice but to rush to make a small upgrade with the A15 GPU.

Not surprisingly, we will see GPU performance improve by leaps and bounds again on A17.